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P-44<br />

Transcriptomic characteristics of an Oriental cultivar of Vitis vinifera ‘Koshu’<br />

N. Goto-Yamamoto*, D. Kamioka, M. Numata<br />

National Research Institute of Brewing, Higashi-Hiroshima, Japan<br />

*Corresponding author: gotoh_n@nrib.go.jp<br />

Our previous studies have shown that ‘Koshu’, a native grape cultivar <strong>and</strong> an important whitewine<br />

grape in Japan, belongs to the Oriental cultivars of Vitis vinifera. ‘Koshu’ is well adapted to<br />

the humid summer in Japan, <strong>and</strong> shows higher disease resistance than Occidental cultivars. A<br />

hybridization experiment using biotin-labeled genomic DNA fragments to a Vitis vinifera<br />

GeneChip showed that the hybridization intensities of genomic DNA of ‘Koshu’ <strong>and</strong> those of<br />

Occidental cultivars (‘Cabernet Sauvignon’, ‘Pinot noir’, <strong>and</strong> ‘Chardonnay’) showed high<br />

correlation <strong>with</strong> a small number (about 40 out of 16,000 probe sets) of exceptions. This result<br />

showed that Vitis vinifera GeneChip is also useful for transcriptomic analysis of ‘Koshu’, even<br />

though major probe sets were designed from the EST data of Occidental cultivars, mainly<br />

‘Cabernet Sauvignon’ <strong>and</strong> ‘Chardonnay’. Transcriptomic analysis of berry skins of ‘Koshu’<br />

during maturation (three weeks after veraison) showed that the top 30 <strong>and</strong> 200 highly hybridized<br />

probe sets contained 12 <strong>and</strong> 19 grape ripening induced proteins (GRIPs), respectively, out of 27<br />

GRIPs on the GeneChip, which is a similar tendency to that of ‘Chardonnay’. However, the<br />

comparison of the hybridization intensities of the berry skins of ‘Koshu’ <strong>and</strong> ‘Chardonnay’ from<br />

before the veraison stage to the harvest stage showed that the difference between ‘Koshu’ <strong>and</strong><br />

‘Chardonnay’ at the same stage is larger than that between the before-veraison stage <strong>and</strong> the<br />

harvest stage of the same cultivar. The berry skin of ‘Koshu’ highly expressed disease-resistance<br />

genes, e.g., Fiber protein Fb 19, PR-4 type protein, Class IV Chitinase, in addition to flavonoid<br />

pathway genes (‘Koshu’ accumulates a small amount of anthocyanin in the berry skin) <strong>and</strong><br />

unclassified proteins, compared <strong>with</strong> ‘Chardonnay’. Thus, these transcriptomic characteristics of<br />

‘Koshu’ are possibly one reason for the disease resistance <strong>and</strong> other characteristics of ‘Koshu’.<br />

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